Clement King Shorter

Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle


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dated July 30, 1830 [Accompanying these volumes is a one-page document detailing ‘The Origin of the Islanders.’ Dated March 12, 1829.] The Evening Walk: A Poem. By the Marquis Douro 1830 A Translation into English Verse of the First Book of Voltaire’s Henriade. By Charlotte Brontë 1830 Albion and Marina: A Tale. By Lord Wellesley 1830 The Adventures of Ernest Alembert: A Fairy Tale. By Charlotte Brontë 1830 The Violet: A Poem. With several smaller Pieces. By the Marquess of Douro. Published by Seargeant Tree. Glasstown, 1830 1830 The Bridal. By C. Brontë 1832 Arthuriana; or, Odds and Ends: Being a Miscellaneous Collection of Pieces in Prose and Verse. By Lord Charles A. F. Wellesley 1833 Something about Arthur. Written by Charles Albert Florian Wellesley 1833 The Vision. By Charlotte Brontë 1833 The Secret and Lily Hart: Two Tales. By Lord Charles Wellesley [The first page of this book is given in facsimile in vol. i. of Mrs. Gaskell’s Life of Charlotte Brontë.] 1833 Visits in Verdopolis. By the Honourable Charles Albert Florian Wellesley. Two vols. 1833 The Green Dwarf: A Tale of the Perfect Tense. By Lord Charles Albert Florian Wellesley. Charlotte Brontë. 1833 The Foundling: A Tale of our own Times. By Captain Tree 1833 Richard Cœur de Lion and Blondel. By Charlotte Brontë, 8vo, pp. 20. Signed in full Charlotte Brontë, and dated Haworth, near Bradford, Dec. 27th, 1833 1833 My Angria and the Angrians. By Lord Charles Albert Florian Wellesley 1834 A Leaf from an Unopened Volume; or, The Manuscript of an Unfortunate Author. Edited by Lord Charles Albert Florian Wellesley 1834 Corner Dishes: Being a small Collection ofTrifles in Prose and Verse. By Lord Charles Albert Florian Wellesley 1834 The Spell: An Extravaganza. By Lord Charles Albert Florian Wellesley. Signed Charlotte Brontë, June 21st, 1834. The contents include: 1. Preface, half page; 2. The Spell, 26 pages; 3. High Life in Verdopolis: or The Difficulties of Annexing a Suitable Title to a Work Practically Illustrated in Six Chapters. By Lord C. A. F. Wellesley, March 20, 1834, 22 pages; 4. The Scrap-Book: A Mingling of Many Things. Compiled by Lord C. A. F. Wellesley. C. Brontë, March 17th, 1835, 31 pages. [This volume is in the British Museum.] Death of Darius Cadomanus: A Poem. By Charlotte Brontë. Pp. 24. Signed in full, and dated 1835 Saul and Memory: Two Poems. By C. Brontë. Pp. 12 1835 Passing Events 1836 ‘We Wove a Web in Childhood’: A poem (pp. vi.), signed C. Brontë, Haworth, Dec’br. 19th, 1835 1835 The Wounded Stag, and other Poems. Signed C. Brontë. Jan’y. 19, 1836. Pp. 20 1836 Lord Douro: A Story. Signed C. Brontë. July 21st, 1837 1837 Poems. By C. Brontë. Pp. 16 1838 Lettre d’Invitation à un Ecclésiastique. Signed Charlotte Brontë. Le 21 Juillet, 1842. Large 8vo, pp. 4. A French exercise written at Brussels 1842 John Henry. By Charlotte Brontë, Crown 8vo, pp. 36, written in pencil circa 1852 Willie Ellin. By Charlotte Brontë. Crown 8vo, pp. 18 May and June 1853 The following, included in Charlotte’s ‘Catalogue of my Books’ printed by Mrs. Gaskell, are not now forthcoming: Leisure Hours: A Tale, and two Fragments July 6th, 1829 The Adventures of Edward de Crak: A Tale Feb. 2nd, 1830 An Interesting Incident in the Lives of some of the most eminent Persons of the Age: A Tale June 10th, 1830 The Poetaster: A Drama. In two volumes, July 12th, 1830 A Book of Rhymes, finished December 17th, 1829 Miscellaneous Poems, finished [These Miscellaneous Poems are probably poems written upon separate sheets, and not forming a complete book—indeed, some half dozen such separate poems are still extant. The last item given in Charlotte’s list of these Miscellaneous Poems is The Evening Walk, 1820; this is a separate book, and is included in the list above.] May 3rd, 1830

      BY EMILY BRONTË

A volume of Poems, 8vo, pp. 29; signed (at the top of the first page) E. J. B. Transcribed February 1814. Each poem is headed with the date of its composition. Of the poems included in this book four are still unprinted, the remainder were published in the Poems of 1846. The whole are written in microscopic characters 1844
A volume of Poems, square 8vo, pp. 24. Each poem is dated, and the first is signed E. J. Brontë, August 19th, 1837. Written in an ordinary, and not a minute, handwriting. All unpublished 1837–1839
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